5th Grade Christmas Escape Room Decimals Digital Math Game

This 5th grade Christmas escape room, Ride the Polar Express, reviews multiplying, dividing, and rounding decimals. Students will complete challenging digital math activities to solve puzzles and secret codes in this NO PREP worksheet alternative!

It’s perfect for those days in December leading up to winter break when students struggle to focus and need an engaging activity! The interactive game format will reach even your reluctant learners. Perfect companion activity to pair with the Polar Express book!

⭐️ ONE STEP START… This escape room is NO PREP and easy to use. Share the one link with students and watch the excitement begin!

❤️️❤️️❤️️ This escape room now includes printable and EDITABLE Polar Express Golden Tickets! (PowerPoint format) Print as is or add student names with the included dot font that looks like it’s been hole-punched with the name. What a fun keepsake for students as they complete the escape room!

This teacher-tested, high interest escape room is no prep to save you time! All you need to do is share the Google Slides link and watch the excitement begin.

Check out the PREVIEW to get a closer look and learn more!

Grade 3 Multiplication Strategies include:

✅ Multiplying decimals – 2 digits by 2 digits not counting leading zeros

✅ Dividing decimals – 1 digit (whole number or tenth) divisor, up to 4 digit quotients

✅ Rounding decimals through thousandths to the nearest whole number, tenth or hundredth

This escape room is created in Google Slides with puzzle activities in Google Sheets and Google Forms. Students will need free Google accounts.

*NOTE: Some districts block Google apps outside the school domain for students, so I have included links to copy the escape room and activities in the teacher guide, as well as a troubleshooting video to walk you through the steps.

⭐️ What’s Included? ⭐️

• Link to the escape room in Google Slides™
• Teacher Guide of directions on how to use the resource with tips for how to introduce a digital escape room
• Quick Start Guide
• Answer Keys for all of the activities and lock codes
• Copy links for all activities, if needed
• Printable “I Rode the Polar Express” stickers in 2 sizes (Word document set up for printing on address labels)
• Hint Cards
• QR Code (for accessing site if using mobile devices using a QR code reader app)
• Troubleshooting video

This resource is ❤️ PERFECT ❤️ for:

• Fun activity before holiday break
• Whole class activity
• Small math groups
• Collaborative teamwork
• Independent practice
• Sub plans
• Test prep
• Math centers
• Intervention
• Enrichment

What is a digital escape room?

A digital escape room challenges students to solve a series of clues and puzzles to escape a virtual room. It begins with a high-interest theme and storyline. Students find hidden links to interactive content-based activities they need to solve to crack the secret codes and escape! Escape rooms are fun and engaging for students and they LOVE them!

Students can work collaboratively in teams or independently. This escape room is meant to be challenging and should take your students 45 minutes to an hour to complete, depending on ability levels.

❤️ Benefits of Digital Escape Rooms:

• Develops teamwork and collaboration
• Critical thinking skills
• Enhances problem solving
• Challenges students
• Rigorous test prep
• Saves planning time
• Self-checking = NO grading
• Paperless and No Prep
• Reinforces concepts
• Engaging and FUN!

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ My students love escape rooms and the Polar Express is perfect for Christmas time. Reinforcing decimals is a great activity right before break and the activities are engaging. -Lori

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ We used this resource on the last days before Christmas break. It was a great review for decimal operations. My students really enjoyed completing it.” -Stephanie

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